Honorary Professorship for Wim Heijman

Wim Heijman was awarded an Honorary Professorship at the Mongolian University of Life Sciences (MULS) in Ulaanbaatar for his contributions to education and research in the field of economics.

On Friday, October 10th, 2014, Wim Heijman was awarded an Honorary Professorship at the Mongolian University of Life Sciences (MULS) in Ulaanbaatar for his contributions to education and research in the field of economics at this university. Together with Bakey Agipar from MULS, Henk Moll from Wageningen University and Ulrich Koester from the Christian Albrecht Universität in Kiel (Germany), Heijman started the cooperation with MULS in 1999. In the framework of two TEMPUS projects, together with Mongolian, German and Dutch colleagues, he took part in the re-organisation of the Bachelor and Master programs in economics.

At present, Heijman is engaged in the supervision of three PhD students from MULS, the organisation of an MBA program for post experience young managers in agribusiness, and the initiation of cooperatives for family farms in the dairy sector, in close cooperation with A.Hakpark, a Dutch company.